B.C. Climate News: Net zero advisory body says Canada must boost emissions targets | An Alaskan town is destroyed because of climate change, now the residents must move

Canada 's net zero advisory body says country must boost emissions targets.

Report recommends a 2035 emissions target of between 50 and 55 per cent below 2005 levels.

97 per cent of climate scientists agree that the climate is warming and that human beings are the cause.

The world is not on track to meet the Paris Agreement target to keep global temperature from exceeding 1.5 C.

Conservationists say provincial wildlife programs are “in crisis’ as it fails to deliver priorities for B.C. ’s natural resources.

The Goosmus wildfire that spread north from Washington state this week has grown to nearly seven square kilometres in size.

The wildfire service says it has partnered with its counterparts in the U.S. to support suppression efforts.

52 per cent of British Columbians think the provincial government should scrap the provincial carbon tax if Ottawa does.

More than half think climate change is mostly caused by emissions from vehicles and industrial facilities.

A majority say the carbon tax that was introduced in July 2008 has negatively affected their finances.